10 June 2015

CAUCE is proud to announce the publication of the new Operation Safety-Net. This document is intended for business and government leaders (but interesting to anyone), and contains 60 pages of clear and readable advice. It addresses best practices for online, mobile, and telephony threats.

CAUCE executive director Neil Schwartzman led the effort as part of the steering committee with peers from M3AAWG and Industry Canada. President John Levine provided technical content on DNS and IP address threats.

31 May 2015

The six defendants charged today are alleged to have profited from the unlawful billing of consumers for unsolicited services. Hundreds of thousands of customers collectively lost tens of millions of dollars in this far-reaching scheme ...

24 May 2015

Court fines "Rachel from card services" $1.7 million

For years "Rachel" has been robocalling to tout fake credit relief scams, making her one of the least popular people in America. The FTC has been working on this case for years, and now has an injunction and a fine to stop at least some of the people behind her.

10 May 2015

FTC acts against fake weight loss affiliate spammer

The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a Glendale, California, operation that allegedly used millions of illegal spam emails, along with false weight-loss claims and fake, unauthorized endorsements from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, to market its unproven diet pills.

The court order halts the defendants’ illegal conduct, freezes their assets, and appoints a temporary receiver over the corporate defendants. The Commission ultimately is seeking to recover money from the defendants that would be used to provide refunds to consumers who bought the defendants’ diet pills.

03 May 2015

Quebec woman accused of using botnets and malware to harass

27 year old Valérie Gignac is facing criminal charges for allegedly taking over people’s computers remotely, spying on them through their web cameras and also harassing them through their computer speakers.

Cloudmark’s 2015 Q1 Global Threat Report

The Q1 threat report from Cloudmark covers the impacts seen 6 months after the enforcement of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

Last year Canada implemented one of the strongest anti-spam laws in the world, CASL. We took a close look at the impact, and the results surprised us. We saw a 37% reduction in spam originating from Canada, but it wasn’t just spam that went down. Over all, Canadians received 29% less email after CASL was implemented. We believe this is because there was a lot of marketing email which was not technically spam but did not meet the strong requirements for affirmative consent required by CASL.